Quotes About Enchantment

And you cannot be enthralled or made to forget.

Magic is natural, for nature itself is magic.

Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.

There is nothing in the world as enticing as a wood of any kind, because of its mysteries.

At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world. The greatest tales are told over and over, in many ways, through centuries. Fantasy changes with the changing times, and yet it is still the oldest kind of tale in the world, for it began once upon a time, and we haven't heard the end of it yet.

Moonlight streamed in, sending loving beams over his face. He closed his eyes and basked in it, and I could tell it was calling to him, even though the moon was not full. She didn't speak to me, but Samuel had once described her song to me in the words of a poet. The expression of bliss on his face while he listened to her music made him beautiful.

people needed to be turned into frogs. Or pigs.

Witchbane," he said. "Witch's Spawn." He grimaced, or maybe he smiled. "Something like that, maybe. I forget.

Jesse sucked in her breath, and said, "It's a TARDIS." "A what?" asked Aiden. "Bigger on the inside than it is on the outside," Jesse said. She

There is magic in places that are between: crossroads, thresholds, bridges.

Kim lifted the lid. Inside, on a small pillow covered in white velvet, lay a gold sunburst the size of her thunbnail, hung on a delicate chain. It looked a little like the first spell she had ever cast, a small explosion of light re-created in metal, and she was not really surprised to find the card with the single word "Mairelon" scrawled across it.

Fee, fie, foe, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread."   Ballimore shook her head. "Nonsense, dear. It's just Princess Cimorene and the King of the Enchanted Forest." "And neither of us is English," Cimorene added.

Come one, come all! Prepare to be amazed by the one, the only - Mairelon the Magician!

Oh!" said Cimorene. She had never met a talking frog before. "Are you an enchanted prince?" she asked a little doubtfully. "No, but I've met a couple of them, and after a while you pick up a few things," said the frog.

A plain sword. No wonder I couldn't block it. I thought it was a spell.

Patricia C. Wrede

People found it haunting, enthralling, enchanting. Perhaps that's why it eventually became known as the

La difficulté n'est pas d'espérer mais de demeurer capable de fasciner l'inespéré.

Thus his music has gone, as he says, 'from being about place to becoming place.'55 In doing so, it has fulfilled his wish in the semantic meaning of enchantment, 'to be in a song': 'I no longer want to be outside the music, listening to it as an object apart. I want to inhabit the music, to be fully present and listening …'56

What you knew in your childhood is true; the Otherworld of magic and enchantment is real, sometimes terribly real - and certainly more real than the factual reality which our culture has built up, brick by brick, to shut out colour and light and prevent us from flying.

The more we imbue the world with imagination, the more the world is ensouled - and the more soul it returns to us, singing with meaning.

I saw the danger, yet I passed along the enchanted way, And I said, let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day.

the feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead in a prospect of inconjecturable magic

Depuis l'enfance et l'adolescence, j'éprouvais une très vive curiosité et une attirance particulière pour tout ce qui concernait les mystères de Paris.